It’s boring to me since it’s very easy for me to see the faults of a religion that I have no association with.

I am wondering if there are a lot of exmuslim people here or if it’s people raised in a christian world that just have a specific gripe with islam.

I was raised in a part of the world mostly shaped by christianity and so I was hoping to see more examination of that.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s ironic that you’re saying this when just a few days ago people were complaining about the lack of criticism towards Islam.

    It’s probably due to the fact that some people who criticized Islam on these posts are brigaded by downvotes in their comment history. Basically a fuck you to these zealots who think we give a fuck about their religion.

  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Christianity in most countries is on the decline and doesn’t actively do really bad shit anymore… unlike Islam, wich is used today as excuses for war, dictatorships, slavery, child marriage, rape, executions and what not. Also its a very strongly proselytized religion that tries hard to spread and sees all other religions or believes as wrong/inferior or as reason to kill the person (especially when Jewish)

    So all in all, Ew.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think of it like this white collar crime (Christians) VS blue collar crime (Islam). Both can devastate communities, but blue collar feels more immediate and worse.

  • TurtlePower@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    Being that more people than ever are getting online and becoming more able to access technology, we are seeing how Izlam is the world’s biggest religion next to Xtianity. This should be very alarming, not because something other than Xtianity is so big, but because these mother fuckers are very forward in saying they want us dead and to rule the world with a sharia fist.

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      i won’t defend the religion but you are mistaking a majority of muslims with a minority of maniacal hotheads. Most muslims don’t give a damn about your life or death and a great majority of them don’t want to live under sharia either.

      we should learn to hate the religion without hating people and not confuse the two.

      • TurtlePower@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        You talk like Muslim is a race. It is not. And I am talking about ALL Muslims, just like I’m talking about ALL Xtians. They may not say it to your face, but they aim to take over the world. The reasonable ones are naive and will be culled like the rest of us. This isn’t a joke. It is not some conspiracy theory. It’s what is happening. Look at the all-muslim city counsel in Michigan. Look at the Evangelists elected all over the country. Fuck religion. Any and all. And brother, let me tell you, they want us dead. Well, the feeling is mutual.

      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Believers of any religion come in exactly two varieties: extremists and those who provide aid and cover for extremists. The nice old lady down the street doing a bake sale and donating the proceeds to her church is still supporting an institution that hides child molesters, robs the community of their time, money and critical thinking skills and advocates for harmful public policy that strips people of their rights. That last piece is supposed to be prohibited by 501(c)(3) rules in the US but I’m not holding my breath waiting to see those enforced.

        • Tomad@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          The only wing of the government that enforces the separation of church and state is the IRS. If you can send them proof of political action or anything that violates 501©(3), the IRS will want that tax money SOOOO FAST.

          • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            The FFRF has been trying. I checked a few of the ones in the list and still see them listed as 501(c)(3) organizations so either there’s stuff happening behind the scenes or their letter went straight to the circular file.

            A little off topic but if you want to get (c) rather than ©, you can use a backslash before either or both the open or close parenthesis and it’ll be skipped by the markdown parser. It should look like this in the editor: \(c), (c\) or \(c\).

            • Tomad@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              I was more meaning on an individual church basis. If you can get pictures of your local church saying “vote Trump”, then that specific church can lose their status. No church can survive it.

              • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                1 year ago

                Can you find any examples of a church losing their 501(c)(3) designation or other tax exemptions due to violations of the Johnson amendment aside from the one back in 1992 (“Church at Pierce Creek”, see also Branch Ministries v. Rossotti)? Revocation was in 1995 for their actions in 1992 and the decision was upheld in 2000 after the church made its appeals. I could be missing something but that’s the only case I could dig up where the IRS has followed through.

                From what I can tell, the IRS has very little interest in pursuing this sort of thing once the word “church” hits the paperwork. Would love to be proven wrong though.

        • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          9
          ·
          1 year ago

          go talk to her. Ask her why she is doing what she does. Communicate with that nice old lady instead of writing in an atheist bubble of an online community.

  • InternetPresence@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if some of it is coming off the news of the suicide bombing that was carried out by IS in Pakistan. But another part of it could be that one post got popular and so you will see posts following the trends.

    On an atheism community you can’t expect people to only post about one religion. Maybe something you can do to tie it to your experiences is try and connect the commonalities that tend to infect all major religions. I think its interesting finding those foundational aspects of many mainstream religions and seeing how they use similar tactics and controlling techniques amongst their congregants.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    A person who is raised in one version of a restrictive Abrahamic religion is upset their online space to vent about it is also visited by people who are raised in another version of a restrictive Abrahamic religion who want to vet about their experience as well.

    Rather than see them as cousins with the same issue, they see them as the other, not realising they are repeating the indoctrination of the religion they claim to have left behind.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      So you’re saying that there’s people here that were raised in muslim dominated societies and are posting the anti muslim posts? I wouldn’t have any issue with that. But so far in this thread nobody said this was their experience.

      So I still believe that it’s people who were raised like me posting the anti muslim memes.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Ffs you do not need to have personally suffered to point out problems. I wasn’t raised in an Islamic tradition either that doesn’t mean I can’t yell about it.

      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        Do you need to have been raised in Clearwater, FL in order to criticize Scientologists or Salt Lake City, UT to criticize Mormons?

          • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            I agree with you that the ex-[insert religion here] content tends to be better informed on that specific group and brings a valuable perspective due to their experiences. Bryce Blankenagel is one example for Mormonism that comes to mind for me, I enjoy hearing what he has to say on their history and practices. At the same time, I don’t think it’s necessary to have been part of those groups or to know every facet of their belief system to post about them, particularly in a meme community such as this. It certainly helps when you know the subject material but growing up in a different community and environment does not disqualify you from being able to criticize it.

            As it relates to this chain of replies, someone raised around mostly Christian influences who gets on here to poke fun at Islam or Judaism is less likely to be speaking from complete ignorance since they share common origins. You have to go further back to find it than when Catholics and Protestants are trading barbs but, as Pons_Aelius points out, they’re Abrahamic religions and have no shortage of common features worthy of ridicule.

  • ErgodicTangle@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Here’s my hypothesis. People have little contact to Muslims and the way Islam is being usually practiced. Thus people’s opinion of Islam is heavily influenced by the worst shit and stereotypes. With Christianity most people have friends or relatives that are “moderate” christians or whatever. So the worst versions of Christianity are less present.

  • LazyBane@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Islam just gets treated with kiddie gloves alot of the time, so when there’s a platform that enables proper criticism of Islam people take the opportunity to vent.

  • rakyat@artemis.camp
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I live in a Muslim-majority country where Islam is sometimes referred to as “hotel California” - you can convert into it but never out of it.

    More posts about Islam, please.

      • rakyat@artemis.camp
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        No worries! I’m thankfully not born a Muslim. But I know countless closeted atheists here who are angry because they are forced to be Muslims in public. It’s a good thing that the Fediverse gives them the rare space to express themselves!

  • bi_tux@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    At least for me this is a nice thing.

    For context: I live and work in Vienna, I know a lot of muslims and a lot of them are just homo- and transphobic bastards.